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View from under the Bottle Tree View from under the Bottle Tree
March 19, 2009
Dog’s Bark!

You know there’s only one thing I don’t like about dogs - well, there are probably a few things - but one that really gets up my nose is - dogs bark.

This might sound funny coming from someone who has two dogs, but one of the many things that struck me when I first came out here was how many dogs there are. Indeed, having only two dogs may put me in the minority, but a lot of the dogs round here have a job - mine are on welfare.

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Everything changes. It’s not progress. It’s reality.

 Posted: January 16, 2008 in Characters of the Bush

“The thing that worries me now is the loss of vocabulary. I love words, but sometimes I forget them”.

As those words came from his mouth, I looked over my shoulder at his bookcase crammed with tomes from Matt Fox’s 1921 three-volume History of Queensland to David Day’s 1996 Contraband and controversy: The customs history of Australia from 1901.

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News from the West

The ‘Tractor Bloke’ heads home

 Posted: October 7, 2009

Frank “The Tractor Bloke” Chiverton should hopefully be arriving back in Dalby this Thursday, October 8, at the end of his 5,746km trip around western Queensland to raise funds for Guide Dogs Queensland (GDQ).

Frank was in Charleville last weekend heading home to Dalby after travelling as far as Birdsville, Mt Isa and Camooweal since he first set off on July 15.

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Queensland Health marks 50 years of flying specialists

 Posted: October 7, 2009

Queensland Health has paid tribute to its unique flying specialist service fifty years after it first took to the skies.

Queensland Health’s Director General Policy Planning and Resourcing Professor Andrew Wilson said so many people’s lives had been touched by the flying specialists.

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Dust doesn’t dampen community spirit

 Posted: October 1, 2009

While the dust storm on Saturday may have delayed the passenger flight out of Charleville that morning, there was no stopping a busload of golfers leaving town headed to Morven for the Morven Open Golf Day.

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The Daze of My Life Welcome to Aussie Diary

September 2, 2009
How time flies…

Gee, how time flies when you’re having, um, fun? Yeah, not too sure about that, but I’m surprised to realise it’s been over 18 months since I’ve posted anything here. Indeed, it’s been about that long since I did anything online that wasn’t related to work.
While I was working down in St George for the Balonne Beacon back in January 2008, I was offered a job as the journalist for the Western Times in Charleville. At the same time, I got offers from the Dalby Herald, the Toowoomba Chronicle and the Bundaberg NewsMail.

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